Thanks very much for your support Sam, we are grateful for it! As we’ve discussed with you, we are also keen to see how thinking in terms of SWB illuminates the cause prioritisation analysis.
It’s easier to see how it could do this in some areas rather than others. As we’re relying on self-report data, it’s not obvious how we could use that to compare humans to non-humans (although one project is to think through if this is really not possible). And for comparing near-term to long-term interventions, these are plausibly not sensitive to one’s measure of welfare anyway. The usual long-termist line is that such concerns ‘swamp’ near-term ones whichever way you look at it.
Thanks very much for your support Sam, we are grateful for it! As we’ve discussed with you, we are also keen to see how thinking in terms of SWB illuminates the cause prioritisation analysis.
It’s easier to see how it could do this in some areas rather than others. As we’re relying on self-report data, it’s not obvious how we could use that to compare humans to non-humans (although one project is to think through if this is really not possible). And for comparing near-term to long-term interventions, these are plausibly not sensitive to one’s measure of welfare anyway. The usual long-termist line is that such concerns ‘swamp’ near-term ones whichever way you look at it.